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Rubio Proposes Retirement Program Reforms
As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...
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Social Security's Worsening Financial Picture Since 2011
We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion...
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Adding "TRUSTGO" to PAYGO Would Improve the Debt Situation
We have always have been proponents of paying for the costs of policies such as the tax extenders and doc fixes, since doing so would make a...
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Good News and Bad News for Federal Trust Funds
CBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad news: CBO...
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How Low Could Debt Go?
We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
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Chained CPI Not in President's FY2015 Budget
Today, the White House announced that the President will not propose adopting the “chained CPI” in the President’s Budget this year, as he did last...
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Entitlement Reform Should Be in the President's Budget
Last Friday, 16 Senate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama, but it wasn't for Valentine's Day. Rather, the letter warned the President against...
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CBO's Social Security Projections
In CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook released this week, they addressed the future of the federal government's largest program, Social Security...
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Explaining the "Double-Dipping" Provision
As the Senate looks for offsets for an unemployment insurance extension, there is one provision that has gotten some attention: ending "double-dipping...
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Op-Ed: Five Facts You Should Know About Social Security
Huffington Post | January 9, 2014 The recent column by Jane White on Social Security reform mischaracterized the position of the Committee for a...
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Getting the Facts Right on Social Security
Note: This piece was originally posted on the Angry Bear blog. The late Senator Moynihan once said that “everyone is entitled to his own opinions but...
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Social Security Trustee Warns About Expansion Proposals
Late in 2013, a debate about Social Security erupted centering around calls from some progressives to broadly increase Social Security benefits at a...